Tech Data Hack

New hacks coming soon.

What’s a Hack?

A Hack is an event that brings together a wide range of people with different skill sets, backgrounds, and complementary expertise. We spend time in a creative environment, focused on generating and developing ideas that may be based on redesigning, developing, or combining aspects of services, products, and technology.

What’s Tech Data Hack?

A two-day event loaded with innovation, tech, collaborative energy, industry leaders, mentors, great food, never-ending coffee supplies, and tireless facilitators. This is your chance to get involved in developing future solutions that harness the power of analytics and data visualisation to guide users through events, spaces, transportation networks, and other systems.

The instructions

Solutions might be developed specifically for Microsoft Inspire 2017 or created to lead users through other spaces/services [optional], however, they must be adaptable to be showcased at the conference [mandatory]

Solutions ought to have the possibility to use AI & Chat-interfaces instead of traditional computer UI [optional]

In preparation for the conference, Tech Data will share their stand design, plans, and content library in case a pre-defined dataset is needed. If participants want to invent a scenario (e.g. a train station), they can do so and make up their own content.

The Prize

Tech Data Hack - London 2017 gave participants the chance to showcase their idea at Microsoft Inspire 2017 in Washington DC, one of the largest tech conferences in the world, all expenses covered (including flights, accommodation, exhibitor tickets, and costs to attend the conference of a cumulative value of $5,000).

With past attendance exceeding 16,000 people from around the globe, Microsoft Inspire is the biggest Microsoft Partner event of the year. A full week of networking, learning, and collaboration to connect with industry experts, partners, and Microsoft employees.

Joining Tech Data Hack also offered participants:

The opportunity to present their working prototypes to top-level management at Tech Data, Microsoft, Cloud Industry Forum, and to other key players in the cloud computing landscape

The possibility to empower their team and enhance their skills to drive innovation

The freedom to transform their products, mindset, and ideas by collaborating with inspiring people in a buzzing environment

The opportunity to meet and cooperate with like-minded professionals

The chance to receive guidance and feedback from marketing and tech experts

Learning to accelerate development

Learning how to manage IT systems

Learning about marketing storytelling

Learning how to navigate the IT distribution channels and how to successfully bring your products to the market

The first ever Tech Data Cloud Hack was a roaring success. We congratulate the winners, Hivefy, who are off to Microsoft Inspire 2017 to showcase their prototype. Read and see more about the event in this blog post. Will you be participating next?

Wondering what's happening when? Of course, a large part of the hack depends on what you and your teams aim to develop and how you decide to work. You'll find the activities going on around that in this blog post.

In the beginning of June, Tech Data & Snook hosted a webinar with Early Bird Tech Data Hack ticket holders. In this blog post, you'll find a video recording of the full session as well as a transcript of some of the questions asked and answers provided.

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